For 5 years I had my social media monitored by university management and was regularly threatened for content they didn't like. So there is a free speech issue in universities but it's not the one the government thinks it is.
Excited to be able to finally share my upcoming book, a history of digital history with
@IllinoisPress
'Technology and the
#Historian
'. I really love what they've done with the cover art!
#digitalHumanities
. Inspired by my work with
@ProgHist
I wrote 30 Christmas cards for my immediate (new) neighbours this year to try to build some new connections (which I find terrifying).
I got 9 back, 2 knocks on the door, 1 box of shortbread, and a call to come hang out and meet everyone.
I think that's a pretty good outcome.
If you're a
#historian
you probably don't do TikTok (unless you have a teenager). But here's a great example of how creative people are making the format work for history.
@jburnford
@DavidAstinWalsh
my students rarely get given permission to download using the API. Applications rejected, presumably because they aren't paying for the privilege
We've just been notified today at UCL that "We have therefore taken the decision to move all teaching and face-to-face, in-person activities online". So if your university hasn't done that yet, tell them there's a clear precedent.
I think my favourite thing about digital humanities projects is the way they get taken down and destroyed when their creator moves to a new university.
I know it's just something little, but my colleague
@j_w_baker
and I had a little email celebration this morning because
@ProgHist
sent out it's first ever employee paycheck today, and that felt like such an achievement for us as a project and
#digitalHumanities
as a field.
When I moved from a university you don't know to one you do know, the number of invitations went through the roof.
I'm not much better than I was before.
So please, don't forget to invite scholars at smaller schools to participate in things too. They're brilliant people.
There is no longer a reason to justify putting a human on an airplane to go look at a document.
We need to stop funding international archive trips except in the most peculiar of cases where digitisation doesn't meet the requirements for genuine reasons.
Free Teaching Workshop: "Teach Digital History Well" with ME
Thurs. 29 April, 12-1pm (London).
To celebrate my new book "Technology & the Historian" and what Programming Historian can do for our future.
Supported by
@ProgHist
@UCLDH
and
@IllinoisPress
Programming Historian (
@proghist
) has been fully
#OpenAccess
since day one. But we can't afford to fully implement 'Plan S', the new open access agenda in the EU. If you care about open access and publishing, we've highlighted why.
If you feel like you're missing out on the many
#digitalHumanities
summer schools, try Programming Historian
@proghist
, which has and always will be free and doesn't require any travel.
Your choice of English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Fanny Burney, keeper of the robes, and close to the Queen's ear. Author of an important set of diaries that give us wonderful glimpses into the royal household.
Princess Amelia (poor Princess Amelia - taken from us so soon). The youngest of George and Charlotte's children, died just before her father's mental health declined for the last time, in 1810.
#DigitalHumanities
is re-centring. Traffic signals on Programming Historian
@proghist
are clear. Top 10 cities for visitors last week:
1 Bogota ๐จ๐ด
2 Santiago ๐จ๐ฑ
3 Madrid ๐ช๐ธ
4 Mexico City ๐ฒ๐ฝ
5 Bengaluru๐ฎ๐ณ
6 London ๐ฌ๐ง
7 Paris ๐ซ๐ท
8 Chennai ๐ฎ๐ณ
9 Hyderabad ๐ฎ๐ณ
10 Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท
And you can do it too. Upload, download, and there you go.
But let's remember, this is NOT what these people actually looked like. It's what some software has guessed based on the shape of their face. Try it on your own photo to see what I mean.
I should fulfill my own request. I'm working on classifying 22,000 dishes served to George III in the 1790s, so that we can trace the ways foreign knowledge became part of British culture and sculpted the very meaning of Britishness.
If you do data vis in digital humanities there is something in Visualization and Interpretation for you. Latest book by Johanna Drucker.
#DigitalHumanities
My favourite digital tool for humanities scholars is by far
@zotero
and I'm so glad I encountered it so long ago.
That team should be celebrated by the DH community.
50% off pre-orders of my upcoming book with the code 'HOLIDAY50' from
@IllinoisPress
until the end of the year. Works out at $14 or ยฃ10. Please share the code with anyone thinking of buying.
Excited to be able to finally share my upcoming book, a history of digital history with
@IllinoisPress
'Technology and the
#Historian
'. I really love what they've done with the cover art!
#digitalHumanities
. Inspired by my work with
@ProgHist
I don't know who needs to hear this, but no, you can't eat your sandwich with the manuscripts. A lot has changed in the last year, but that's not one of them.
Official launch day has arrived! "Technology & the Historian" - a history of the digital turn.
Sad I celebrate with you in person, but thanks everyone for sharing photos of your copies. It's fun to see it out there
Copies:
@UCLDIS
@IllinoisPress
All Python lessons on
@ProgHist
have now been updated to Python 3. That includes lessons in English, Spanish, and French. Happy learning! Thanks to everyone who helped us with this huge task. It involved updating 41 lessons!
If you're working on a
#historiography
syllabus, did you remember to include a session on
#digitalHistory
?
No coding required to teach students about how technology is changing their field! Send them to Programming Historian
@proghist
for a play.
1/6 ๐งต
11th published paper of my academic career and today was the first time I got a "accept with minor revisions" on the first go, instead of a reject or major revisions upon first submission.
Sometimes we pretend it's easy. But it aren't.
If you're looking for my book "Technology and the Historian" I'm told it's shipping MUCH faster from the publisher than from Mr Bezos.
It's also considerably cheaper. Please use the 30% discount code and buy direct.
My dad sent me a cheese and wine hamper yesterday as a surprise congratulations for my book launch. Nice, as we're on opposite sides of the ocean, so haven't seen each other in the past year. At least we have cheese.
We need to normalize pre-review prints in digital humanities and historical studies research. I have papers that have been sitting in peer review for a year providing no one any value. It's a frustrating system that doesn't need to be this way.
Can you do me a favour and make sure your undergraduate history students are taught about
@proghist
this year?
Programming Historian is free, and built to train
#historians
. Please share the message
Today 5 colleagues and I are reading and providing feedback on each other's papers. No budget, no fanfare. Not going on our CV. No (significant) carbon footprint. And the result is better research. I'd recommend it as an alternative to the conference. Happy to share how we do it
I've had a paper in peer review for a year now. According to the editor 5 people have promised and then not followed through with the review. I understand life is difficult, but please say NO to things you cannot actually do right now. It's a much better option for everyone.
So proud that the team at Programming Historian
@ProgHist
has been selected as one of the winners at the Open Publishing Awards.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to that open learning community over the past decade.
An congrats also to the other winners.
Invisible when you first enter academic job market, is that so many jobs go to people making lateral and sometimes downward career moves. You aren't just against other PhD students for posts. You're up against senior lecturers trying to escape failing depts or abusive managers
If you're an educator teaching digital skills to humanities students, make sure you check out Programming Historian (
@proghist
) for a relevant tutorial before reinventing the wheel.
They're great for go-at-your-own-pace learning. And they're free.
Extremely proud to receive recognition today as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Great to see innovative teaching and leadership in pedagogy being recognised and rewarded in higher education. Thanks to
@HelenBarefoot
for her support!
Book launch for "Technology and the Historian" is today! Sold out I'm afraid, but looking forward to seeing some of you at lunchtime today.
#DayofDH2021
โYouโre still inside the whaleโ.
Advice from my colleague John Styles on what was wrong with a paper I was still drafting. I was still stuck in the sources and couldnโt yet see the big picture.
Thatโs a piece of advice that really has stuck with me academically.
Others?
Your
#FoodHistory
challenge today is a grocery challenge. How many items from the King's grocery list in 1791 are in your cupboard right now? I have 11. Can anyone top that?
This week I'm reminded of the time I tried to point out discrimination in my workplace and was told that all staff had received unconscious bias training, so I was wrong.
Excited to be working with Rachel Rich and
@historybeagle
on a new
@BritishAcademy_
funded project! "European Cuisine and British Identity in the Age of Nationalism, 1760-1837"
I'm concerned with what looks like a belief that A-level testing USED TO be fair but wasn't this year. It was never a fair or good system and has always been open to privilege and gaming. There are lots of other ways.
Looks like a few historically themed organisations will have some spots open on their board soon. I hope they will recruit young
#historians
who can speak for the future
Multilingual
#digitalHumanities
is important. Please ask your library to add
@ProgHist
in Spanish and French to the catalogue (both titles are free - send them these links). (es) (fr) and encourage your friends to do the same
@FernRiddell
Big fan of Marina Amaral's historical artwork in 'The World Aflame'.
@marinamaral2
Definitely urge people to support her work. Great value at only ยฃ9.99.
Can you help us all connect with our
#Post92
colleagues who are here on Twitter? They need to be at the centre of the conversation today. But it can be hard to find them.
Attendance at
@long18thsem
has gone from 57 to 110 to 119 since moving online for its third virtual history seminar ever. There's a market for this. Let's keep going through the summer.
These big free online seminars with participants from around the world are a great new form of scholarly communication. But I miss pizza with friends after the in-person events. That's where the real knowledge creation took place. Not listening to the paper. Talking about it.
๐ฃ We are Hiring ๐ฃ
Lecturer, Archives & Records Management.
UCL, London. Open Ended.
Contribute to MA & undergrad teaching, work with me on our new Information in Society programme at UCL East.
ยฃ48,614-57,041 p.a.
Deadline is 12 November 2023.
You're only going to be able to assign essays as assignments for about 3-4 more years. So I'd encourage you to start thinking creatively now about testing learning.
When you start studying the history of
#DigitalHumanities
it becomes clear that the people who want to push the envelope get bored quickly and won't sustain their innovations. So they need to be forced to partner with the people who will keep projects alive for the long term
does anyone know how many book reviews is typical for an academic book?
Just got sent my 11th for 'Technology and the Historian'. Is that a lot?
#twitterstorians
Every time I open Twitter (web) there's a SUPER interesting tweet at the very top. Then it loads all the new tweets and I spend 5 minutes scrolling down looking for the one that got bumped
If you're supervising a history PhD in the UK and you aren't telling them that VERY SENIOR historians are competing with them for entry level jobs because of things like this, then you're not being open enough with them.
Let's stop pretending a PhD is a pathway to a job in a uni
The
@RoyalHistSoc
has issued the following response to news of the closure of
@KingstonUni
โs History Dept.
The RHS is committed to promoting and defending history across the HE sector and beyond, as set out in its statement of May 2021
#twitterstorians
From YouTube to published research article.
Very pleased to announce that my paper on the birth of a slum, first presented on YouTube, has been accepted at 'Urban History' (after revision of course).
#history
Can't wait to share with you all soon.
If you want to know how Technology is changing Historical Studies, my book is 50% off this week.
Use promo code: AHA23
Or you can read the twitter thread I started yesterday about technical solutions in
#archives
that made historians angry.
#history
So grateful for the support and happy to announce that
@proghist
has reached its first donation goal threshold. This is a huge step for us in our aim towards high quality open access publishing. Thanks everyone.
Received a really thoughtful email from a woman doing her family history whose ancestor I had mentioned in my PhD thesis. Great reminder that people from the past have connections to the present.
We had 3 US universities sign up for our Programming Historian partnership program this week, providing vital $ to help us grow
@ProgHist
and support digital skills learning.
Thanks to everyone who made that happen.
If you want more info on partnerships:
Been learning about
#NetworkAnalysis
through tutorials online this week.
#DigitalHumanities
really couldn't exist without the kindness of other scholars sharing tutorials.
So often the formal opportunities to learn these skills just don't exist for humanists otherwise.
Converting my new article in Economic History Review () into a
@ProgHist
tutorial on gravity models in historical research. Wish me luck!
#dhist
#interdisciplinary
Digital Benin website launching in 2022. To digitally bring back together the materials that were taken and dispersed in the 19th century.
#digitalHumanities
#publichistory
Congratulations to Riva Quiroga (
@rivaquiroga
) on her Fellowship of the Software Sustainability Institute (
@SoftwareSaved
).
Riva is now the Fourth member of Programming Historian (
@ProgHist
) to gain the fellowship! Well done Riva!